I was wondering last night how close are linux and apples operating systems with how the deal with programs? Are they closer than linux is to windows? If I remember correct apple bases their OS off of bsd which has a similar structure to *nix. I was wondering because a lot of work goes into making windows programs work in linux, I was wondering if it would be easier to bring Apple programs over to linux? Are there any projects out there that are trying this?The main reason I ask is Photoshop is literally the last program I use windows for. If there was a way to bring the apple version of photoshop to linux I would not need windows at all anymore (virtual or real). I know there is gimp and its variants, and you can do some great photo editing in there as people on these boards have shown, but I just haven't been able to get as comfortable with gimp as I have with photoshop.

I haven't tried it, I just boot into windows when I have photo related things I need to work on. I've read mixed reviews of photoshop in wine. I was more curious about if it would be easier to bring the mac programs over if the bases were similar.

Well in Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds (Linux's creator) gives his humble opinon of Steve Jobs (Mac's CEO)

But enen though I disagreed with almost everything he said, I kind of liked him

Btw macs are based off Mach an ex-university project that Linus thought was a piece of crap because it was a microkernel. Now macs are just glossed up by Aqua their fancy DE. My opinion new paint on an old carand has nothing to do with Linux or BSD

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"Revolutions Happen", David Diamond "and, sometimes revolutionaries just get stuck with it" Linus TorvaldsJust For Fun

The ONLY way to make it happen is to write to Adobe and tell them how you feel, this of course is true for ALL applications you want to run natively on your Linux box - Let the developers of the software you like know that you're running Linux, be nice and polite and maybe someday we will see three versions of all software being released.

To make Zwopper's point more clearly, we, the Linux community, don't have the option of porting any proprietary program to Linux. Nothing about it can be changed without the copyright holder's permission. Some times the EULAs even require use on a given OS system. Software can only be used on the terms set forth in their licenses, unless they are in the public domain.

Fred

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result.

Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on the menu. Liberty is an armed lamb protesting the electoral outcome. A Republic negates the need for an armed protest.